Tuesday, 30 November 2010

Vanity or Not?

Who is this smart looking chap? Need a clue? He's an actor. A further clue is he played the lead role in a superb Yellow Pages advertisement a few years ago.

This is the same man four years ago:

Aye it the Irish actor James Nesbitt. Now, I don't usually promote any business, but for the sake of any readers who detest losing their hair, I can reveal James has had two hair transplants in recent years. Quite successful they were too by the looks of things, but I have to admit I preferred his receding hairline.

The name of the Dublin clinic who performed this mini-miracle is here, although I don't expect any of you who are a missing a healthy number of sebaceous glands to be interested. A bunnet's so much cheaper isn't it.

Over the last ten years, my hair has receded a bit. The thinner it got, the shorter I cut it (always good advice, that) and today it looks not unlike the second photo above. Only last week, I was attending a course in Door Supervision for my new job, and I was a little upset when, on several occasions, the trainer referred to me as 'bald'. I'm not, really I'm not.

I regard hair transplants for men like I regard facelifts and boob jobs for women - tragic loss of self-confidence at best, and utter vanity at worst. Men - don't do it. JN might look 'better' in the first photo, but everybody knows and will titter behind their hands.

I confess my hair is starting to thin but when it comes to it, if there isn't enough to justify a haircut I think I'll just buy a razor.

A well known actor friend of mine once told me a story about Edward Woodward. Everyone knew he wore a syrup.

He had three - in varying lengths and the only person allowed to see him without one was his personal dresser. One day he complained all morning about needing a haircut, then after lunch reappeared in the short syrup telling everyone what a good job the barber had done...

My sister had a partner who thought he was Elvis and wore a Elvis type wig - thought nobody knew - and she never saw him without it on as he went to bed wearing one of those Rip Van Winkle bed hats.

He was English - they stayed in Preston and he also had an obsession with William Wallace after seeing Braveheart. At least he did not try and dress like him so I suppose his obsession with Elvis must have been stronger.